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...Patrick Foye, a former head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority who has since joined ASTM as its North American chief executive, said the price was the result of a robust negotiation: “Just...
...Given a national economy in which 23 per cent of the country’s output is produced in less than 1 per cent of its land area, this is bad news for both London and the rest of Britain as well....
...The low-density, spread-out pattern of many US metropolitan areas undercuts the use of trains and buses. “For most Americans, there isn’t transit there to take....
...When she was younger, Turner tried for a job with London’s Metropolitan Police, but she didn’t get it....
...The Regional Transportation Authority, which allocates funds to Chicago-area transit agencies, examined six Covid-19 recovery scenarios and found that commuting by transit decreased in each one....
...Authority, whose projects have faced delays and cost overruns....
...The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which includes the country’s second-busiest subway system, took the rare step of suspending operations from late on Friday to the end of Sunday....
...As money to fund the systems has grown tighter, reliability on critical systems — including Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the New Jersey Transit and the Washington Metropolitan Area...
...One overlooked area now gaining prominence is that of Spanish Colonial, and both Coll & Cortés and New York dealer Robert Simon are offering examples at Spring Masters....
...Heather Lowe from Global Financial Integrity says: “As you squeeze the balloon you get all the bad action into a smaller area and it’s easier to deal with.”...
...The system’s quick response to the catastrophe – many parts of it were working almost as normal within a week – won worldwide admiration for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s handling of the crisis...
...He takes us from Henry VIII’s Whitehall tennis courts to modern “colosseums” such as Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, via the drill halls, billiard halls and sports clubs that have shaped leisure time in the...
...Urban areas up and down the east coast were preparing for the impact. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority shut the city’s subway, bus and commuter rail services at 7pm on Sunday....
...Several subway lines are set to restart on Thursday in areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, but service below 42nd Street in Manhattan will remain suspended....
...The same was true of Washington DC, Chicago, Boston and elsewhere. It was called the White Flight....
...However, the Washington Metro, the US’s second-busiest mass transit system, was able to announce plans for a partial restoration of service from 2pm on Tuesday....
...Jay Walder, chief executive of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, said inspections were under way to assess damage to the city’s extensive subway system....
...The mayor on Friday ordered a mandatory evacuation of low lying and waterfront areas of the city, as states from the Carolinas to Maine declared emergencies and authorities cleared areas along the eastern...
...Within the United States, workers in metropolitan areas with big cities earn 30 percent more than workers who aren’t in metropolitan areas....
...It draws on case histories of people with neural abnormalities to demonstrate the amazing extent to which different areas of the brain interact and even take over each other’s functions....
...The mayor has also begun renovating the city’s dilapidated downtown area, sanctioning plans to develop a mafia museum, due to open in 2011, next door to City Hall....
...Politics Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, by Andrew Bacevich, Metropolitan RRP£25 A radical critique of modern American foreign policy that argues that successive US governments have...
...The issue could come to a head this week when a US district court rules on whether the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which runs trains and buses in the Washington DC area, is in default...
...Taking risks and venturing into virtual no-go areas, he often sounds exasperated by the island’s self-destructiveness. But at least the vibrant music offers some relief....
...“It’s getting really hard to get into the subways,” Anastasio tells me, explaining that the Metropolitan Transit Authority has started installing motion sensors in the tunnels to alert the police to trespassers...
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